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The Map of Knowledge

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Map of Knowledge

By Violet Moller

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About the book

'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to nin...Show more

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9781509829606

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Published year

2019

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1

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The Map of Knowledge

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Hardcover

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